Dangos 15048 canlyniad

Notebook of Daniel Lewis (1841-1922), King Street, Carmarthen, grocer, containing accounts, 1880-1882, family memoranda and transcripts of wills, and details relating to the election of deacons at Lammas Street (Heol Awst) Welsh Congregational chapel, Carmarthen, 1841-1937.

Pedigree book, [mid 17 cent.], each page consisting of a printed arrangement of fifteen empty roundels and eight shields to accommodate four generations, together with a larger shield for an achievement; partially used to enter the Welsh ancestry of King James I, based on George Owen Harry, The Genealogy of ... James ... King of great Brittayne ... (London, 1604) (see p. 38). Apparently in the hand of Sylvanus Morgan (1620-1693) whose pedigree appears on p. 1, although a note by J. E. Oldfield (inside front cover) suggests the scribe to have been Peter Vaughan, sometime of Jesus College, Oxford.

Journal, January 1870-March 1871, of Edward S. Rutter (b. c. 1838), Swansea, co. Glamorgan, mainly recording his evangelical work with the Swansea Gospel Mission founded in 1865 by Oscar T. Snelling (1845-1916). Periodic diary notes, 1872-1874, found loose in the volume, have been tipped in at the end (ff. 113-23).

Account books, 1796-1942, containing details of receipts and payment in respect of Ellen Glynne's charity, including details of rents received from trust property in the parishes of Llandwrog and Llanllyfni, co. Caernarfon, and in the parish of Llangoed, co. Anglesey.

Minute-book, 1796-1909, of the trustees of the charity created by the will of Ellen Glynne of Elernion, parish of Llanaelhaearn, co. Caernarfon, spinster, respecting the almshouse at Llandwrog and property in the parishes of Llandwrog and Llanllyfni, co. Caernarfon, and in the parish of Llangoed, co. Anglesey. The minutes include details of admittances to the almshouse and details of tenants, rents and repair of trust property. Also included in the volume are copies of the will, 1727, with codicils, 1728 and 1732/3, of Ellen Glynne, proved at London, 1733 (tipped in between ff. i and ii; ff. 1-6v).

A group of fifty-four holograph letters, 1929-1932, from Thomas Jones, Cerrigellgwm[-isa], Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, to Evan Roberts, Llandderfel, Merioneth, relating to the writer's literary and musical pursuits. Some letters refer to the Welsh ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America. Also included in the collection is a holograph letter, 15 November, 1932, from Einion Jones, Cerrigellgwm-isa, to Evan Roberts, enclosing a pedigree of his father Thomas Jones and a copy of the latter's last poem.

Commercial Memorandum-Book, with an Almanac for 1854 ..., with notes on Greek grammar in the hand of Thomas Charles Edwards, first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A typescript copy of the probate of the will of Rees Lewis of the parish of Killycwm, Carmarthenshire, yeoman (father of Morgan Rhys, Llanfynydd, hymnist), 10 September, 1779 (will dated 26 June, 1768); and two typescript copies of the probate of the will of Morgan Rhys of the parish of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, yeoman, 7 August, 1779 (will dated 2 August, 1779), together with a photograph of a section of the original will comprising testator's signature and seal.

A manuscript souvenir (with illustrations and press cuttings) of the silver jubilee of the accession of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935, as celebrated in Barbados, British West Indies. The volume is in the hand of Evan Taylor, Bridgetown, Barbados.

An essay by Richard Hughes, Tai Newyddion, Rhostryfan, Caernarvonshire, on 'Nodweddion unrhyw ddeg o gymeriadau hynotaf yr ardal yn ystod yr haner canrif diweddaf', which was awarded the prize at the Rhostryfan and Rhosgadfan Literary and Musical Festival, Christmas, 1903. The writer has added a note to the reader ('Gair at y Darllenydd'), 1 January, 1904.

A contributions book of the W. T. R. Powell (Ysbyty Ystwyth) Lodge in the Aberystwyth District Branch of the St. David's Unity of the Order of True Ivorites, 1918-1944.

A holograph manuscript of part (signature B) of an unpublished Welsh translation of the text of 'Cydymholiad' or a catechism, together with directions to the printer, dated 19 June, 1806, by W. Owen [-Pughe]. The text covers four large folio leaves, and is divided into thirty pages 'marked page for page as it is in the English edition'. Signature A, to be sent to the printer thereafter, contained the title, preface, and table of contents. The directions to the printer contains also rules 'for dividing words at the end of lines'.

Notes on, and extracts from, early nineteenth century farm account books of Hafod-y-porth, Beddgelert, compiled by John Thomas, Brynbela, Caeathraw, c. 1912.

A notebook in the hand of 'R. Lloyd, Bala College, 1873' (aft. of Llangristiolus), containing extracts from Hans Lassen Martenson: Christian Dogmatics (1865, etc.), and a synopsis in English of Griffith Williams (Talsarnau): Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog [1875]. Blank leaves at the end of the volume have been used to record a sale of household effects.

A group of papers of R. A. Jones, Beaumaris, 1919-1928, including holograph letters, receipts, and manuscript, typescript, and printed minutes, circulars, rules, etc. relating to the North Wales Temperance Federation and the North Wales Union of Evengelical Churches. The correspondents include J. Glyn Davies, 1927 and J. Talwrn Jones. The group also includes a letter, 1919, from D. J. Davies, Caernarvon to the Reverend H. P. Roberts, Beaumaris, relating to the rental of a room at Beaumaris for a tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites.

A typescript copy, with footnotes by W. Gilbert Williams, Rhostryfan, of an incomplete essay by John Williams, Tyddyn Gwian, Bwlch y Llyn, on the early history of Cesarea, Llandwrog Uchaf, Caernarvonshire, being the winning essay at a literary and musical festival ('Cylchwyl Lenyddol a Cherddorol') held at Cesarea on 10-11 April, 1908.

A group of poetry and miscellaneous papers from the collection of, and partly in the autograph, of David Griffith (Clwydfardd). They include englynon by Clwydfardd, e.g. 'Ar ymweliad ei rasusolaf Fawrhydi Tywysog Cymru an gwyl Genedlaethol yn Nghaernarfon Gorphenaf [1894]'; 'Ir diweddar barchedig Edward Anwyl Cadeirydd y Dalaith Ogleddol', etc.; englynion addressed to Clwydfardd by Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) and John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan) (1891); copies of the proclamations of meetings of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain at national and provincial eisteddfodau; a letter, [c. 1891], from Clwydfardd to B. Morris Lewis, Chelsea, giving particulars of nineteenth century national and other eisteddfodau; notes on the key to 'Coelbren y Beirdd', etc., by T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn); incomplete notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews; and an incomplete eulogy of the writing pen, 1872.

A printed bidding letter, December, 1837, of Ann Smith, daughter of Richard and Ann Smith of Wigfa, parish of Kiillybebill, and a notebook containing a list of donations 'bestowed' (or 'conferred') or 'repaid' at the bidding on 12-13 January, 1838. At the end of the volume is an inventory of the estate and effects of the late Richard Smith of Wigfa, 8 November. 1869, and undated accounts of payments to Edmund Davies, mason, and others.

'Welsh Lyrics', being the original manuscript of a review by Robert Arthur Griffith ('Elphin'), published in The Arvonian, April, 1901, of R. Silyn Roberts and W. J. Gruffydd: Telynegion (Bangor, 1900). The greater part of the review is written on the dorse of leaflets entitled 'Cyngrair Cymru Fydd. Sut i ffurfio cangenau'.

A volume of 'Notes on Practical Artillery', with diagrams, compiled in 1856 by Major-General R. O. Jones, Bryntegid, Bala.